Brea will lose roughly 10 residents to alcohol and 1 resident to drug related overdose during the calendar year.

In the first quarter of the year the police will make close to 50 drug related arrests and 40 driving under the influence arrests.

Over 1,100 people convicted of drug possession were sent to prison in OrangeCounty in 1999. There were only 50 people sent to prison for the same charge in 1980.

According to the national crime index Brea has a property crime rate of 5 out of 10, 2 points above the national average and a violent crime rate of 3, equal to the national average. There were 87 violent crimes reported and 1,622 property crimes reported to law enforcement in 2005.